Signal Hound has updated its free Spike Spectrum Analysis software by creating a variety of digital modulation analysis tools for its BB60C and BB60A USB-powered real-time spectrum analyzers. Spike software version 3.0.8 now provides constellation diagrams, symbol tables, error-vector magnitude (EVM) measurements and bit pattern matching analysis tools for a wide range of modulation types.
Coupled with a Signal Hound BB60C or BB60A spectrum analyzer, the updated Spike software includes real-time tools to analyze digitally modulated signals with bandwidths to 27MHz and frequencies from 9kHz to 6GHz. Prior to version 3.0.8, Signal Hounds’s Spike software was already capable of signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SINAD), total harmonic distortion (THD), and percentage of modulation measurements.This update unleashes more sophisticated signal analysis of common digital modulations present in cellular various radio applications.
